May December may be shaping up to be an awards season favorite, but not everyone is a fan… One of the very real individuals the film’s fictional story was loosely based on hated it.
If you haven’t seen the Netflix powerhouse, it stars Natalie Portman as an actress researching the role of Julianne Moore’s Gracie Atherton-Yoo.
In the film, Gracie’s relationship with Charles Melton’s Joe Yoo was the subject of a media storm in the ’90s.
She began having sex with the boy when he was just 13 years old, and she was 36! After getting caught, she goes to prison — where she has his child!